For nearly three decades the Jackson Estates have been nurturing coveted vineyards along California’s cool coast. By controlling the vineyards and ensuring that preferred farming methods are used, Jackson Estates ensures that the grapes are handled with the utmost care and harvested at their peak performance for optimal ripeness.

This 100-percent Chardonnay is bursting with tropical flavors like pineapple, mango and papayas. Citrus notes explode in your mouth with a balanced flavor of baked apples and a hint of spiced nuts that round out the lingering finish. The layered aromas of green apples, peaches, honey, and vanilla are very pleasant.

To balance this intensity, Jackson Estates ages the wine in small oak barrels, primarily made with French oak sourced from the family’s stave mill in France.

The warm summer days and the cool and foggy nights are ideal for creating this memorable Syrah. The result is one of Bonterra’s most acclaimed wines.

From Mendocino County comes a wonderful wine maintained through an organic growing process, from vineyards that are entering their prime. This is reflected in the wine’s brilliant color and intense aromas. Bonterra Syrah blends a touch of Rhone varietals like Granache, Mouvedre, and Viognier for a powerful floral note.

Concentrated berry flavors come to the fore, with notes of vanilla and toasty oak spice from the aging in French oak. The barrel aging in the handcrafted oak accentuates the distinctive plum and blackberry flavors in this robust yet smooth Syrah.

The vineyards are located 17 miles northwest of the historic Beringer winery. In the Knights Valley there is no town, spa, or restaurants, just vineyards rooted in shallow, alluvial soils full of volcanic rock, which gives the wines grown here their distinctive character.

The Knights Valley designation was first used on a Beringer label in 1974. By 1983, this area had won official recognition as a premier wine-growing region in the form of its own American Viticulture Area (AVA) designation.

The 2006 Knights Valley has a vibrant fruit core, hints of brown spice and pink peppercorns, and a lingering finish of ripe black fruit. It’s an appealing wine, showing likeable softness and flashy flavors. The palate brings cassis, mocha, licorice, sweet tobacco, sage, Asian spice, and smoky oak, and it finishes long and rich.

This wine is notable for its superb structure and affordable price.

The vintage of 2007 saw very cool temperatures during flowering, resulting in a phenomenon called “hens and chicks” in this Chardonnay. This is a cluster with normal size berries ( “hens”) mixed with tiny (seedless or unfertilized) berries (“chicks”). Although the clusters weigh less, the flavors are intensified in the tiny berries. Furthermore, the combination of very little rain in 2007 and mild weather throughout the vintage produced some truly excellent Chardonnay that’s rich in texture and full of stone fruit flavors.

The vines are grown primarily on Elder loam soils underlain by river stones deposited over thousands of years from the Arroyo Seco River, allowing a four-foot rooting zone that keeps the vines’ vegetative growth and fruit in balance. Additionally, the cool climate and winds of the Salinas Valley extend the growing season and retain the natural grape acids and intense varietal character of the Chardonnay.

This Chardonnay has a very attractive straw yellow color of moderate depth. The aromas are of lime zest, pear, nectarine, and bubble gum, combined with the perfumed honey and toasty vanilla oak bouquet from the barrel fermentation, malolactic fermentation, and sur lie aging. The result is an elegant Chardonnay from Monterey’s

Arroyo Seco AVA. The flavors are clean, with nectarine, citrus, subtle floral notes, and vanilla toastiness, producing layers of complexity with an excellent balance of fresh fruit acidity and palate weight. This wine is ideal for pairing with oven-roasted chicken, Dungeness crab or cream-sauced pasta dishes.

Andrews was named after the many famous Andrews from Pittsburgh, Carnegie, Mellon, Warhol – the Andrew Steakhouse is a fine dining, contemporary steak and fresh seafood restaurant. The restaurant has a lounge featuring the finest single malt whiskeys and an extensive wine selection.

Once inside Andrew’s you will be pleasantly surprised by our somewhat updated take on a classic steakhouse menu. Of course while we feature the best beef that Creekstone Farms has to offer in all of the classic cuts, we also offer cuts such as our 38-ounce tomahawk ribeye for 2, which is carved tableside. Exciting items such as the fried green tomato and lobster stack, lobster macaroni and cheese, and fennel crusted swordfish will tell you that this is not your average steakhouse, and when you take that first bite you will know it’s true.

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